From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: RH Linux versions 2.2.14-5.0smp and 2.2.19-6.2.16smp does not finish booting after install has completed and boot hangs system on both the Tyan S2460 and the Tyan S2466 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install 6.2 from CD - Completes install 2.Only runs in uniprocessor mode after this 3.Boot smp kernel hangs at PCI_IDE1: BM-DMA at 0xf007-oxf00f...... It never gets to the line that displays hda:disktype Actual Results: See steps to reproduce Single processor version works fine, SMP version hangs on boot Tried cpu id fix, tried nodma fix, tried updating system and kernel Expected Results: It should get through the boot sequence and continue to the login prompt. Additional info: 1) Downloaded kernel 2.2.20 from kernel.org and downloaded updated rpms for up2date 2) Ran RH 6.2 2.2.14-5.0 in uniprocessor mode. 3) installed required rpm's to get up2date to work correctly (not trivial) 4) ran up2date to bring whole system to latest rev's including 2.2.19-6.2.16 kernel and source 5) Still found SMP broken 6) Installed 2.2.20 from item 1 above 7) Built kernel and added it to lilo.conf 8) Booted into 2.2.20 smp kernel with no problems!!!!!
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